AMD is making a new addition to its midrange graphics card lineup today with the introduction of the Radeon HD 4770 videocard, based on the companies first 40nm GPU, the RV740. The Radeon HD 4770 strikes a balance between performance and price, coming just under the lucrative $100 mark and slotting in nicely in terms of performance between existing Radeon 4670 and 4850 videocards.

ATI’s new RV740 GPU is derived from the venerable RV770 core, but clocked at 750MHz and equipped GDDR5 memory that runs at an even 800MHz, giving it a memory bandwidth of 51.2 GB/s. The memory bus on the Radeon HD 4770 is 128-bit wide, which should make for an interesting comparison between it and the popular Radeon HD 4850. PCSTATS will break down all the numbers in a moment, but first let’s introduce the videocard sitting on the PCSTATS’ test bench today, the ASUS EAH4770 HTDI/512MD5/A.

ASUS’ EAH4770 videocard is largely based off AMD’s reference design, although it does use a simpler two-slot wide aluminum heatsink in place of the standard ATI thermal solution. It’s not pretty but it is quiet, that’s what matters most. The EAH4770 is PCI Express 2.0 x16 compliant, comes with 512MB of GDDR5 memory and the usual list of supported features; ATI CrossfireX, HDCP, DX10.1, SM4.1, and Unified Video Decoder 2 for HD content decoding. ASUS’ EAH4770 HTDI/512MD5/A videocard retails for about $109USD / $130CDN / £60GBP at stores like Newegg and CanadaComputers.

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